Glenn Gray

Glenn Gray serves as Senior Product Marketing Manager at SolarWinds. He has more than 10 years of experience working in various IT roles including systems administrator and IT manager. He attended the University of Texas for a degree in International Relations and Economics and attended the University of British Columba’s MBA program.

It's no secret that telecommuting is a highly disputed topic. For the general
employee, the jury is still out on the pros and cons of telecommuting. For
organizations like Yahoo!, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and U.S. Postal
Service, telecommuting is not an option due to the need to foster
collaboration, alleged employee abuse of telework benefits and mounting
security concerns, respectively. Among the startup scene and various other
organizations, though, telecommuting is seen as a way to provide flexibility
and improve work/life balance.
For IT professionals, however, such reasoning does not apply. In fact, IT
pros have worked remotely with success long before these debates ever
started.
By providing remote support from anywhere - even in far-flung locations, as a
recent SolarWinds poll of our thwack online user community found - IT pros
have shown they ar... (more)

IT Help Desks: The Unsung Hero of Business Productivity
More than ever, business leaders are making it a point to prioritize employee
performance, constantly emphasizing ways to motivate, incentivize, empower
and retain employees. In fact, according to Deloitte, 78 percent of business
leaders believe employee engagement is an urgent and important priority. And
for good reason: according to Gallup, all core business measures -
profitability, productivity, customer satisfaction, quality, retention and
sales - are significantly higher at companies with a concentration of engaged
em... (more)

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